Three Acts, Four Builds, Five parts

What does that have to do with anything in the real world?

Arch plot has to do with chosen goals. Most people don’t select their goals to achieve and so have no journey in their lives.

Mini-plot is always open-ended and is what most people share in common – or for genius-types, the search for having that meaning. (Scorpion on TV, as well as Supergirl, Marvel movies, and other bigger-than-life heroes who are working to make sense out of their extreme talents and abilities.)

The Anti-plot is the land of the overwhelmed, by the gods or the increasingly inter-related environment, while also being composed of belief and faith – which exist for everyone, not just the realm of the religious or enlightened. The world of the Avant-garde, and Zen. (It also increasingly describes modern government, sadly.)

Every person seems to have these, and can apply them in their own lives to improve what they have, or kill themselves off slowly.